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The Astrologer’s Diary: 17-23 June 2019

I’ve just returned to London from The Astrological Association 51st Annual Conference. You can pick up the podcasts of my two workshops here and a workshop from my Sun Sign School colleagues Maggie Hyde and Victor Olliver. Maggie is a resident tutor and Victor is a guest astrologer. It was lovely to see special guest tutor Natalie Delahaye there too, and the narrator of our new Stonehenge and Avebury Astrology podcast, Julian Venables, with another podcast guest, Sharon Knight. Do pick up the conference downloads now, if you want to take your astrology further. Thanks to everyone who took part in our (amazing) live experiment on horoscope houses.
In Britain? Come to The Barge at Brighton Marina for free astrology and tarot events on Saturday afternoons. If you are a Premium Member or Sun Sign School students, you can also join me for morning tea and an exclusive pre-event. Details and RSVP here. See you there - we’re predicting your summer!

Aries: 17-23 June 2019

There is so much potential in 2019 for you as a traveler, student, teacher, publisher, author, or worldwide web citizen - that a Full Moon can only help. This involves foreign people and places or distant regions and cultures, most likely, as it is a voyage of sorts. With the Full Moon itself, Ceres and Jupiter all clustered in this area of your horoscope, very close to Monday you seem likely to see the solution, the open door, the breakthrough - but also the work.

This may be a trip away, a relocation, a book or blog for some Aries people. In other cases, you are dealing very specifically with a language or outlook which seems quite foreign to you.

Ceres is about compromise and deal-making. She is there all year along with Jupiter, so you have (roughly) until the end of November to pursue what is biggest and best. This Full Moon will press the pause button on that. It’s the pause for thought you had to have, but it will help you reshape your original ideas, hopes, visions, dreams and wishes since last November, Aries. This in turn will help you go higher, faster, further.

Taurus: 17-23 June 2019

Your sign is associated with values and also valuables and the two collide near Monday when you have to test what money cannot buy and also examine who/what is so precious to you it is priceless. This may be about offshore investments, the family legacy or inheritance or just your eBay page. Taurus, you are also associated with the bull of gold bullion and bull markets, which may be relevant. The bull is a slow-moving, fixed, grounded, stubborn creature who has all four hooves firmly planted on terra firma. So, do you, and you now need to question how far and fast you are going to shift in 2019 in order to pursue a solution or opportunity. This can only come along once in 12 years so it’s not exactly everyday stuff. At the same time a Full Moon implies inner conflict or external tugs of war. This is likely to create a real pause as the week begins, but perhaps it is time for a new life budget based on ‘life math’ which counts the things that go way beyond feeling rich or poor.

Gemini: 17-23 June 2019

This week is about your former, current or potential partner. Your enemy, rival or opponent. It is about the face on the other side of the scales. These may be the scales of justice, so for many Gemini people there is a legal question hovering. In other cases, this is not so much about a lawyer, barrister or judge, but about the general principle of justice, equality, fairness and balance. You can be in a work partnership or a romantic partnership (like a marriage) on this cycle and it will still feel the same.

A Full Moon is D-Day when there is no more hesitation. Everything has to come to a head, and it will, no matter if you are thinking about starting a sexual relationship, ending one or just pursuing a solution within a marriage. There may be a duel instead of a duet, in which case the gauntlet is well and truly thrown down near Monday, or you both proceed to Hyde Park, so to speak, marking out your paces in opposite directions.

What you may not know is that - be this duel or duet - it works so well for you. In fact, you have an opportunity or breakthrough, via this person, not possible in 12 years. You will see the full enormity of it between now and November, but you are in the kind of cycle when a weak opponent can do you huge favours, or a winning double-act can give you what you need. Yet, there is also a compromise here. The deal-making is substantial!

Cancer: 17-23 June 2019

Your ruler the Moon is now big, bright, white, round and full in the sky, in the sign of Sagittarius. This describes the Sixth House of your solar chart, where you organise your health, wellbeing, workload, housework, daily routine and lifestyle. Being pulled in two directions is common on a Full Moon, when the Sun and Moon are on opposite sides of your chart. So, too, is any D-Day situation when push comes to shove. A classic example would be a promotion within your company which still represents a very hard compromise for you or others. There are many examples of how the current horoscope patterns might show up. The main thing to remember is that you gain.

Cancer, you will have to consent to a whole new world, where your job, unpaid work, studies and/or your body is concerned. This is especially true if your body is presenting you with challenges which get in the way of regular work. The new deal is evolving and to your total benefit. You will have to do a lot of bargaining and negotiation, both with others, yourself and the world as a whole, yet what is on offer is a tremendous leap forward. It is a way out or through. It is very likely also a way up!

Leo: 17-23 June 2019

The Full Moon on Monday 17th June seems most obviously about the group, your friends, the network and so on. The people power that is temporarily paused as you deal with an inner conflict (yours) or perhaps his, hers or theirs. This may be about the Democrats if you are Barack Obama or Bill Clinton. About Led Zeppelin if you are Robert Plant. About your Twitter fan base if you are J.K. Rowling. You get the picture.

Leo, what this Full Moon is actually about is your son or daughter. Your godchild or niece, nephew, grandchild. Pretenders to your throne and heirs to your throne. Youth and the young. Millennials or Generation Y. Perhaps, adult children. This is actually a bigger deal, because it goes way back into your past and forwards into a bigger, better future.

The fact is, your role as Queen or King to a younger court of your own or other people’s offspring is so lucky for you in 2019. And the stumbling block this week is part of the progress. What cannot be reconciled easily or quickly is a jigsaw piece in the ‘wow’ picture of November. Hang in there. Do this. It may be intensely personal, involving pregnancy, for example. It may be less personal, so about paid or unpaid work involving people old enough to be your children.

Leo, this transit is also about any sexual relationship with parenthood potential. Dating a divorcee with a son is one example. Someone dating you and your godchild is another.

Virgo: 17-23 June 2019

We have a Full Moon on Monday describing an inner tug-of-war about your family, house, apartment, hometown and/or homeland. This works well for you long-term. It is the solution you needed or the opportunity you deserve. In fact, by November, you will be in a bigger or better space, or in a much-improved situation. This may be with a relative or a flatmate, a live-in partner, tenant, landlord and so on. Nobody said a Full Moon was easy, as the Sun and Moon are at odds with each other. You may be at odds with yourself or others. So, Monday-Tuesday appears to be D-Day, of sorts. Yet, with a compromise like no other coming in 2019, with a new deal all round - and obvious benefits, answers, breakthroughs and solutions - you can and should be optimistic. You are very likely to relocate this year, certainly by early December, if you are feeling adventurous. Even if you stay put there are clearly home improvements in store, or just tremendous options with your family or household. If you need repair work in any direction it will be obvious on Monday. Trust this cycle. You will have the very best ‘repair work’ that you could expect in 12 years!

Libra: 17-23 June 2019

You are right across the ideas, concepts, projects, multimedia, books, courses, classes and so on. If you have a message, then 2019 is a really good year to get that message across. Whatever you need this year is on offer. A bigger or better car. Improved train or bus options, or airline choices. It’s coming through and will peak for you in November. After all - you have to connect. Beyond this, there is also the actual business of being heard and read, more efficiently, more effectively and perhaps for a bigger and better readership or audience. We might be talking about your meeting style here or your current French lessons. Libra, the Full Moon on Monday is a stretch. It’s hard work. It may divide a situation down the middle or find you at odds with yourself. Just keep your eyes on the prize. Focus on what you gain in 2019 and what you are propelled by, in terms of high hopes and big visions. There is a solution up ahead if you need one. There is an open door. You are going to have to compromise, Libra, but it’s worth it.

Scorpio: 17-23 June 2019

Your concerns on Monday or Tuesday with your offshore bank account, charity, family inheritance, business, income, debt, and all the rest - from precious possessions to property - suggest a crossroads. I can almost hear the Crossroads theme tune as I write that. You’re between a rock and a hard place. Yet, Scorpio, you are also being offered an incredible opportunity to save or make money over the long-term, or perhaps a breakthrough solution which would end in a win-win all round. To get there from here (likely in November) you need to deal with the Full Moon ‘stretch’ which is a phenomenon documented over the centuries in astrology. When the Sun is opposite the Moon, you are pushed and pulled, or have to deal with push-pull in the situation around you. Once you do what must be done, you move into what is undeniably a massive deal-making process this year. You must compromise. Yet you will gain.

Sagittarius: 17-23 June 2019

This Full Moon (obvious overnight on Monday-Tuesday) is personal. It is in Sagittarius, your own sign and it joins Ceres and Jupiter, also in Sagittarius. The real you is underneath all this, but the surface version of yourself, seen online, in multimedia, or just ‘fronting up’ to life - is where the choices now rest. This may be about your title, face, profile or shape. Your style or name. There is more to this than meets the eye, because it pulls in questions about your former, current or potential partner. Perhaps, your rival, enemy or opponent. We may be looking at reputation questions, or perhaps image projection. Being seen in the light of ‘the two of us’ or ‘me versus you’ is really about the other person holding up a mirror, so that you can see yourself reflected there. Take your time on this Full Moon. Yet, also know, that 2019 is the year you go further, faster, higher - with all the ‘Me’ matters. Some of this is about social me-me-media.

Capricorn: 17-23 June 2019

The Twelfth House of your solar chart is fully occupied this week, by a Full Moon in Sagittarius, and Ceres and Jupiter also in that sign. The Twelfth House was once associated with angels and demons, in the astrology of the Middle Ages. Today we associate it with your inner demons (addiction, for example, or phobia, or other matter for the psychologist’s chair). We still link it to religion, though, and also spirituality in general. The soul. You have an awful lot going on here, Capricorn, for whatever reason. In fact, by Tuesday the need for time and space alone will have intensified. There is a simple reason for this. Only you can speak to your own inner being, or inner light! The search is on. In 2019 you gain so much, and this is classically a time of conquering any ‘demons’ but also finding yourself among the angels. Hitting heavenly heights as you develop your relationship with the spiritual side of your being.

Aquarius: 17-23 June 2019

You were born to feed the needs of the group, and people power often goes around because of you. This Monday-Tuesday is essential to that, because the potential in 2019 is massive. This may be a political party or Twitter. A band or an orchestra. You are now experiencing a tremendous stretch or tug-of-war, either involving a friend in/around this group, or inside yourself. Yet, you would be mad not to see the huge potential of 2019. What is growing, is all around you and the delivery may yet be November. For now, though, see what does not sit easily/who does not sit easily in your life and view this as a creative process. Friends and groups really matter to you. They define you, actually. Now, you are in a wonderful position to do the work (very hard work) and accept that if you/you all want the biggest and best, in terms of solutions or massive achievements, you are going to have to cut deals.

Pisces: 17-23 June 2019

This line-up in Sagittarius at the highest point of your horoscope describes your aspirations, ambitions, social position, mission statement, achievements and quest to go higher, or stay at the top. If there is an obstacle it could so easily be rolled out of your path to the top, this year. If you are beyond obstacles but just seeking to go higher, further, faster - that is also within reach. Promotion is an obvious example of this. Pisces, the Full Moon on Monday, felt by Tuesday all around the world, is going to stretch you. There may be mixed feelings here, or you may be dealing with polar opposites. Yet, out of this quandary comes a really great new path, where at last you can get to grips with what needs to be done. This might be fixing issues, or just aiming higher. This can and should be an ambitious year for you, no matter what field you are in. This may be paid work, unpaid work or study, yet in November in particular you have what it takes to hit the heights. The work starts now.